Vigils held at police precincts throughout city to honor Officer Holder

EAST HARLEM (WABC) -- Vigils were held at 25 police precincts Monday night, a third of the total in all five boroughs to remember NYPD Officer Randolph Holder.

Several precincts tweeted out pictures of their gatherings to remember Officer Holder and all victims of violence caused by guns.

Monday night at Police Service Area 5, the silence was deafening. This is the housing precinct where Officer Randolph Holder worked, where he reported for his final shift and where he never returned.

It's also where dozens of community members stood shoulder to shoulder with lifelong cops to mourn.

"The cops that Officer Holder worked with on a daily basis, thank you," a resident said.

It's been nearly a week since Officer Holder was gunned down, but to many there it still seems like yesterday.

Last Tuesday, cops say Holder was gunned down by a known gang member named Tyrone Howard as he tried to flee the scene of a different gunfight.

Early Monday morning, police announced they'd succeeded at unearthing the murder weapon, after a painstaking grid search of the bottom of the Harlem River, where they say Howard ditched his 40 caliber pistol.

And Monday night, on the eve of Officer Holder's wake and funeral, the public and the police joined hands at vigils at every precinct in the city.

At the 25 in Harlem, at Brooklyn North Taskforce, activists came together to support New York's Finest.